Mark 7:1-23 ▼

1 And the pharisees came together vnto hym, & certayne of the scribes which came from Hierusalem.

2 And whe they sawe some of his disciples eate bread with common that is to say, with vnwasshen hands, they founde fault.

3 For the pharisees and all the Iewes, except they wasshe their handes oft, eate not, obseruing the traditions of ye elders.

4 And when they come from the market, except they wasshe, they eate not. And many other things there be, which they haue taken vpon them to obserue as the wasshyng of cuppes and pottes, and brasen vessels, and of tables.

5 Then asked hym the pharisees and scribes: Why walke not thy disciples accordyng to the traditio of the elders, but eate bread with vnwasshen handes?

6 He aunswered, and sayde vnto them, that Esaias hath prophesied well of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honoreth me with their lippes, but their heart is farre from me.

7 Howebeit, in vayne do they worship me, teachyng doctrines, the commaundementes of men.

8 For ye laye the commaundement of God apart, and obserue the tradition of me: as the wasshing of pottes & cuppes. And many other such like thinges ye do.

9 And he sayde vnto them: Well, ye cast asyde the commaundement of God, to mayntayne your owne tradition.

10 For Moyses sayde, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, who so curseth father or mother, let him dye the death.

11 But ye say, yf a man shall say to father or mother Corban (that is, by the gyft) that is offred of me, thou shalt be helped.

12 And so ye suffer hym no more to do ought for his father or his mother.

13 And make the worde of God of none effect, through your tradition, which ye haue ordeyned. And many such thinges do ye.

14 And when he had called all the people vnto hym, he saide vnto them: Hearken vnto me, euery one of you, and vnderstande.

15 There is nothyng without a man, that can defyle hym, when it entreth into hym: But the thynges whiche proceade out of a man, those are they that defyle the man.

16 If any man haue eares to heare, let hym heare.

17 And when he came into the house, away from the people, his disciples asked hym of the similitude.

18 And he sayde vnto them: Are ye also so without vnderstandyng? Do ye not yet perceaue, that whatsoeuer thing fro without, entreth into a man, it can not defyle hym,

19 Because it entreth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purgyng all meates?

20 And he sayde: That which commeth out of a man, defyleth the man.

21 For from within, euen out of the heart of men, proceade euyll thoughtes, adulterie, fornication, murther,

22 Theft, couetousnes, wickednes, deceit, wantonnes, a wicked eye, blasphemies, pride, foolyshnes.

23 All these euyll thynges come fro within, and defyle a man.